Animated Addams Family Movie Cast, Plot & Artwork Revealed

MGM has revealed the hurl and patch for its animatedAddams Familymovie , along with the first official art . The creepy and kooky Addams Family originated in a serial publication of undivided board cartoons guide forThe New Yorkerin the 1930s , but have since made the start to cartoon TV serial publication , live - action TV appearance , and even springy - action picture over the decades since then . Tim Burton is ( unsurprisingly ) among the Addams ' biggest fans and was loosed attached to direct a stop - motionAddams Familymovie back in the late 2000s , but the film never made it past the other ontogeny stage .

Now , however , theAddams Familyis getting computer animated on the enceinte screen , under the insomniac heart ofSausage Partydirectors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon . It was previously reported that Oscar Isaac - a democratic fan pick to play Addams paterfamilias Gomez in a unrecorded - action film - wasin talks to sound Gomez in the animated picture , but there had n’t been any updates on that front until today . MGM has now reassert Isaac ’s affaire , as part of a larger promulgation that bring out the entire voice cast and plot for the project .

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accord to MGM ’s press expiration , The Addams Familyvoice form include Charlize Theron as Addams matriarch Morticia , Chloë Grace Moretz as their girl Wednesday , Stranger Things ' Finn Wolfhard as their son Pugsley , Nick Kroll as Uncle Fester , Bette Midler as Grandma Addams , and freshly minted Oscar - winner Allison Janney as Margaux Needler , the Addams'“arch nemesis"in the film . MGM further expose artwork of the all - together kooky family in the movie , along with the following outline and quality verbal description :

base on the famous New Yorker creation of Charles Addams , this animated action - funniness will follow the Addams crime syndicate whose life get down to unravel when they front - off against a wily realness - TV emcee while also prepare for their extended menage to arrive for a major celebration , Addams - style .

Morticia , devilishly devoted to her husband and children , is the pale mucilage that holds her clan together . Gomez , debonair , sinister and passionately in erotic love with his married woman , is enthusiastic about whatever dreadful scheme he ’s cooked up . Wednesday is a magnificent and forbidding teenage miss with long braids and deadened - cooking pan brainpower . Pugsley , a menacing 10 year old on over - drive , enjoys getting into any sort of horrific mischief he can find . Mad Uncle Fester is good natured , merry and like to create havoc any way he can . Grandmama is smitten with her grandchild who enjoy her cooky mould like bats and skulls . Margaux Needler , the reality TV makeover queen , is consume with a desire for downright suburban , pastel perfection .

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It further sounds like the animatedAddams Familymovie - which was written by newcomer Matt Lieberman - will dally out as an origin story for the mystifying and spooky clan . Specifically , in his own statement , Vernon says that the picture show will"tell the news report of how Gomez and Morticia fit , find their house and start out their family . “He also take note that the originalNew Yorkercartoons drawn by Charles Addams were a major inspiration for the aesthetic and overall look of the movie , which he also anticipate will take an"unique approach"to realizing the Addams and their darkly zany misadventures on the big sieve .

As pitch - perfect as they arguably would have been in a hot - actionAddams Familymovie , the cast for the animise film is nevertheless smashing and should aid to breathe fresh life sentence into their several characters here . Tiernan and Vernon are similarly intriguing picks to call the shots on this labor , given their turn up bent for idiosyncratic humor and off - beat animated storytelling sensibility . It remains to be control if the story here is evenly up to snuff , given that quasi - prequels of this variety can be real hit or pretermit in their approach . So far though , Addams Familyappears to have just the right amount of satirical spirit to hit its prey .